HTML Rendering Issues

[Kateonfire]

I'm a pretty new mac user, just started using my mother's iBook after our Dell died. So, when I finally decided to make a new 404 page for my domain... I hit a wall. I can't get any of the coding to actually work; it just shows up plain on the screen, like WYSIWYG.

I wrote the page in Word because that's the only program that will allow me to save a file as .html, and I don't know if that's the problem or what. I've tried using TextEdit and Appleworks, but they were no-go's as well. Please help, I have a number of website issues to solve, which is kind of hard when I can't even edit pages.

[iBert]

do you use html code? or programs like Dreamweaver, Front Page, etc.

one thing comes to mind. Maybe Word is messing up the file. Highly unlikely, but one never knows. Anyways you should not use Word for web development. Use any text editor and do a save as filename.html(.htm)
Check out subethasubetha edit (http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/) , another program you can try is bbedit. This are text editors that will highlight html syntax. This are not WYSIWYG. If you want programs like this, you'll have to check Dreamweaver.

[chanoc]

The best way to learn HTML is get a good book and BBEdit. If you need a WYSIWYG, the best is Dreamweaver. Best of luck to you!

[jsw]

Your easiest manual solution is to use TextEdit.

Be sure to set up the preferences properly (see below) so that you won't save in rich text format.

[Kateonfire]

Thanks to all of you, jsw's suggestion solved the problem. :)